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Onward with durable remission

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 2 8:02pm | Replies (37)

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Thanks for sharing that. Just a note that that abstract for that study says it uses data from 1999–2004 for patients with PSA levels from 0.1 to 2.0. As far as I know, those predate the ultrasensitive PSA test (or at least its wide availability). I haven't yet found a study mentioning major metastases with undetectable levels in the uPSA test (< 0.01, or sometimes even lower), but am keeping my eyes open.

Regardless, even for the old data with the less sensitive PSA tests, they were looking at something that happened only very rarely.

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Interesting point you bring up. Unfortunately there is no answer today, hopefully this is being studied. An awful lot of people want an answer to this, I would start doing ultra tests if this was shown to make a difference in diagnosis.